Agathocles the Great

Agathocles the Great (358 BC-) was a general of Macedon and the adoptive son of Alexander the Great.

Biography
Agathocles the Great was born in 358 BC in Pella, Macedon (present-day Macedonia). A good attacker and confident commander, he was adopted by Alexander the Great in 335 BC, even though he was two years older. Agathocles served as the commander of the forces that Alexander ordered to put down the Illyrians to the north, and he subdued them by taking Epidamnus from them that same year.